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Letters Patent LVO. 76,143, dated jiLzr/:L 31, 1868.

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TO ALL WHOM I'l MAY CONCER.:

Be it known that I, JAMES W. ARNUM, o he city of? lparismoi' Orleans,and Saeof .iousiana, have :invented a certain new, useful, and improreddevice for 'fasten together, when the same areapplied to the banding ofeott'ouror other bales; and do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description oi',k the same, reference being hadto the annexed drawiings, making a part of this specification, in whichthe device is shown as when inadeofcast or malleable iron and of platewrought iron, and also as when fastening the ends of a band, and aswhen'disconnected therefrom.

The particular' object that it is designed to accomplish by myinvention, is to take up the slack of `the bands before the ends ofthebands are fastened, and thus to prevent the expansion of the bale afterit has been taken from the compressing-machine, and to preserve itsshape or proportions, as tue same has been imparted to it by suchmachine. But the further advantage is also attained of preserving thebands for further and continued use, by the employment of my device,because, in taking them olf the bale, there is no need either to cut,untwist, or untie them, and hence they are not injured or shortened, andmay therefore .be applied to a new bale, as often as they are taken oitone, until they are finally worn out by continued use. But my inventionwill be better understood by referring; to thc drawings.

At Figures l and 2, the device is shown as when made et' cast ormalleable iron, and it will be seen that it consists of two flat bars AA, between which a cylinder, VB, is securely fastened not far from oneendet' the said bars. 'lhe bars are somewhat wider than the diameter ofthe cylinder at the peint at which they are connected thereto, but fromthat point their width lgradually and regularly diminishes to theirpoints, as is clearly shown by the drawings. About midway between thecylinder ll-and the longest ends of the bars A A, notches a a are cutinto the latter, both upon their upper and lower edges, to aiford ameans of attaching the ends of the band thereto. i ,f Y l f `Theapplication of my invention to use is as follows, to wit: The band. ispiutaronnd the bale, and its -two ends, being'passed around cylinder Bin reverse directions, are fastened inthe notches a a', as shown at tig.2. The device is then turned over until all the slack is wound 'aroundthe cylinder, and a. considerable degree of tension is' brought upon theband. This being done, the long arms of the bars A A rest against thesurface of the bale, and act asv levers to prevent a reverse revolutionof the device, and a consequent unlocking of the tie or fastening.

At Figure 3, the device shown 'as when made oi' wrought plate-iron. Itis slightly different in form from the device when made of cast ormalleable iroi but its operation isvpreciscly the same. The differenceconsists chiefly in the absence oi' the cylinder which is soon at figs.l and 2, but yet it will be seen that acurved support for the ends ofthe band nevertheless obtains, and that it is created by folding overcertain parts of the plate between the bars to which the ends of thebands are attached. I consider the device as presenting its best form,however, when -1nade as shown at iigs. l and 2, and of cast or malleableiron, and only exhibit tig. 3 to the ends of wire rope nud wiredemonstrate that it can be made of wrought iron.

When the balehas reached its destination, and is to be broken up, anyproper instrument or lever may be inserted underneath the device tooverturn it, and unwind the bands, so as to preserve thc-.n withoutcutting, or if this be found too dilicult, in view of the great tensionupon the hands the device may be readily broken by the blow of a hammer,and the band be thus released without injury to it.

My device is simple and clica-p, and et' such easy application that noinstruciiin is needed for its use.

What I claim, and desire tu secure by Letters Patent is, as a new unduseful article oi' manufacture- The combination of the bars A A', whenprovided with the notches t (N, with the cylinder B, or its equivalent,as shown at iig. 3, substantially as herein described for the purposeset forth.

' JAMES W. BARNUM.

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